Egg-carrier.



PATBNTED OCT. 3, 1905.

D. B. REPLOGLE.

EGG CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 25, 1904.

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0, lgv g M m VENTO/ij PATENTED 001". 3, 1905,

D. B. REPLOGLE. EGG CARRIER.

APPLICATION rum) r513. 25. 1904.

UNITED STATES IAENT OFFICE.

DANIEL B. REPLOGLE, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO GEO. E. SHAY, OF MONROVIA, CALIFORNIA.

EGG-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL B. REPLOGLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los'Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Egg-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to egg-carriers constructed from sheet or plate metal and designed to be used in shipping, preserving, delivering, and other handling of eggs.

The objects of the invention are to improve the form of such egg-carriers, to strengthen the egg-holding clips, to strengthen and stiffen the bodies of the carriers, to furnish more convenient means for handling the carriers, to protect against obtruding metallic edges in said carriers, and other objects as are herein specified, and pointed out in the claims.

To these ends the invention consists of the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts specified, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a suitable diagram for cutting the metal to construct the egg-holding clips. Fig. 2 shows a pair of clips bent out 'and in use, holding an egg. Fig. 3 is a view of the clips cut on the line y y of Fig. 2, showing how their inner surfaces coincide with the sides of an egg when in use. Fig. 4: illustrates the egg-holding clips used for holding a bottle. Fig. 5 shows a substitute method of cutting where a flat-shaped bottle is to be held. Fig. 6 is a minified view of aflask or flat bottle held with my improved holding-clips. Fig. 7 is a view in cross-section, taken on the line (0 a; of Fig. 1 after the forming or bending of the holding-clips. Fig. 8 is a front view of an aggregation of my improved holders in the form of an egg-carrying tray. Fig. 9 is an edge view of the tray shown in Fig. 8, part of the side wing being removed. Fig. 10 is a minified diagram of a suitable blank from which the complete egg-carrier may be constructed. Fig. 11 is a minified View of the bail adapted to be attached to the eggcarrier. Fig. 12 is an upper end view of the tray shown in Figs. 8 and 9 when in use.

Similar characters of reference denote like and corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 denotes a piece of sheet or plate metal from which the holding-clips may be cut.

2 2 denote tongues or clip members integrally constructed from the metal 1 by cutting on the lines 3 a 3.

5 is a circumference cutting out a circular portion of the metal, the said circumference being in general parallel to the outer boundaries of the tongues 2 2. The circumference 5, together with the inward loop 4: of the cut 3 4 3, forms the boundary-lines of the clipring 6, the loop 4: of the said line 3 1 3 being 'cut eccentric with the circumference 5 and the curved lines 3 3. This disposition of the cutting provides for a stronger construction of the tongues 2 2 and the clip-ring 6 nearer to their connection with the body of the metal, where they are left wider, and leaves the top of the ring 6 and the tips of the prongs 2 2 correspondingly narrower at their outer ends when they are bent out into position. A corrugation or embossment 7, parallel with the inner circumference 5, extends around the clip-ring 6, following the dotted line 8. A corrugation or embossment 9 ext-ends around the clip members 2 in a circular direction along the dotted line 10, which dotted line 10 is parallel to the loop 4: of the line 3 4 3. The inner faces 11 and 12 of the holding-clips are thus formed into annular concave slopes designed to coincide with the outer surface of the shell of the eggs which they are designed to hold. The flanges l3 and 14:, which are wider nearer their connections to the metal body, are thus appropriately stiffened where they most require it. The edge 15 of the metal from which the holding clips are cut is also set up around the opening, as more particularly shown in Fig. 7. This arrangement stifiens the metal in the vicinity from which the clips are bent, and thereby holds them better in the aspects in which they may be placed.

In the substitute form shown in Figs. 5 and 6 the line 3 4: 3 instead of following generally circular paths describes an oblong figure, so as to make the holding-clips 2, 2, and 6 adapted to hold objects oblong in crosssectionas, for example, the bottle shown in- Fig. 6.

Applying the foregoing cutting and bending to holding-clips in constructing a dozenegg tray, 1 cut from the sheet metal an oblong blank, as shown in Fig. 10, the corners 16 of which are cut off, and semicircular notches are cut in the sides at 17 17 17 17, each pair of said notches lying in the line on which the wings 18 of the carrier are to be bent at right angles with the main body 19 thereof. A dozen holes 20 20, &c., corresponding to the hole cut by the circumference 5, as explained in Fig. 1, are grouped in the middle of this blank, and the holding-clips heretofore described are formed from the metal around these holes in the manner described. The top and bottom parallel edges and the right and left parallel edges of this blank are folded over and laid down so as to form the borders of the tray, as shown at 21 21, &c., and 22 and 22. The edges at 22 22, besides being laid over flat, are in addition thereto set up at right angles to the Wings 18 18. The folds 23 23,which extend between the notches 17 17 at each end of the tray, are recurved or bent over so as to form hooks or sliding ways 2% 24L, which are designed to ac commodate the hooked-over hems 22 22 of a similar tray for the purpose of sliding or looking together consecutively any number of these trays. The notches 17 17, &c., and the corners 16 16, &c., are cut out so as to prevent the hem 21 from being continuous, as it would become an obstruction in the sliding-ways 24: 2 1 and on the sliding hems 22 22, thereby preventing successful operation of the sliding and locking together features. A bail 26 is secured to the upper edges of the wings 18 18 at 25 25, the hooks 27 27 of said bail hooking through holes 28 28, shown in the metal blank. A hole 29 is also provided at the upper edge of the tray and may be used for the purpose of hanging up the same. The body of the tray is stiffened by swages 3O 30, extending transverse thereto.

The operation of the device is readily understood. The holding-clips 2 2 are bent out at right angles to the body of the tray, and the holding-ring 6 is also bent out .in a plane parallel to the clips 2 2. The eggs to be held are designed to sit within the ring 6, the opposite ends thereof being held or clasped by the clip members 2 2. A dozen eggs are preferably arranged into a single tray, as shown in Fig. 8. All of the edges of said tray, except at the corners, are hemmed or laid over. The package or unit thus con structed is suitable for handling in transportation, storage, delivery, and the like, the several units being adapted to slide consecutively together, the hems 22 of each unit sliding freely into the ways 21 of the adja cent unit.

Having thus described my invention and the operation thereof, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an egg-carrier constructed from sheet or plate metal, a holding-clip cut from the body of said metal wider at its connection with the metal, and tapering to its outer end, the said holder having a corrugation extending throughout its length, substantially as specified.

2. In an egg-carrier constructed from a single piece of metal, an egg-holder formed integrally therewith from metal cut from an area, the said holder consisting of three spring-clip members constructed from strips of metal wider at their connection with the main metal and tapering narrower at their outer ends, the said strips of metal embossed by a corrugation on one side, and adapted to be bent into parallel planes perpendicular to the main metal from which they are cut, substantially as specified.

3. In an egg-carrier constructed from sheet or plate metal, a plurality of egg-holders, each comprising a pair of substantially semi circular holding-clips and a ring, cut from an area in the metal and connected tl'lerewith, the said clips and rings tapering narrower at their outer ends, and being embossed or corrugated for the purpose of stiffening and strengthening them, substantially as specified.

4. An eggholder integrally constructed from the metal of an egg-carrier, the said metal being cut by wholly-circular and partcircular lines concentric each to each, and the said holders corrugated or embossed by embossments eccentric as to each other, whereby the openings in the members of said holders are brought opposite one another when bent into parallel planes, the said holders being adapted to be bent into planes parallel each to each, and perpendicular to the metal from which they are cut, substantially as specified.

5. An egg-tray constructed froln sheet or plate metal, egg-holders integrally constructed therewith, the said holders being cut from areas of the metal with connections to the metal, and the said holders embossed for the purpose of stiffening and strengthening them, and said embossments being eccentric with each other, substantially as specified.

6. An egg-tray constructed from a single piece of sheet or plate metal, the said metal being provided with a plurality of individual spring-clip egg-holders integrally made therewith by cutting the said metal, the said cutfour corners of said rectangular metal cut ofi,

said set up at right angles forming Wings or sides to the tray, substantially as specified. I

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses;

DANIEL B. REPLOGLE. Witnesses:

G. E. SHAY, WVALTER J. LUNDY. 

